Peace

Experience will show you that peace,

Which fills your soul with charity,

The love of God, and of your neighbor,

Is the road that leads directly to eternal life.

--Juan de Bonilla

 

Lessons

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

--Rev. Lawrence Lovasik

Beauty

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

--Dante Alighieri

Happy

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

--Martha Washington

Perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Signum magnum apparuit in caelo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim.

(A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.)

--from the Introit of the Mass for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Happy feast day, dear friends!

Kind

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

 

--Rev. Lawrence Lovasik